[DRBD-user] failure on offline shrinking

Ger Apeldoorn ger.apeldoorn at sara.nl
Fri May 22 10:56:42 CEST 2009

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


> would this procedure have worked instead?
>
> 1. leave drbd running in primary/secondary
> 2. umount the filesystem
> 3. resize the filesystem offline
> 4. drbdadm -- --size=new-size resize resource
> 5. lvreduce the partition
> 6. remount the filesystem
>
> if the above procedure would work, then i think the documentation in  
> the 'Shrinking on-line' section should be reworded, as it's currently  
> easy to misinterpret it to mean that the filesystem must also be  
> shrunk online in order for drbd to be shrunk online.
I've tried this, but lost all metadata in the process. This resulted in 
a full-resync.

Ger.



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